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<DIV></FONT><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>2007</STRONG> <STRONG>IEEE/INFORMS</STRONG>
International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics
(SOLI2007) Aug. 27-29, 2007, Philadelphia, USA </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.ieeesoli.org/ href="http://www.ieeesoli.org/"><FONT
title=http://www.ieeesoli.org/><FONT title=http://www.ieeesoli.org/><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN class=888382900-23042007 title=http://www.ieeesoli.org/><FONT
title=http://www.ieeesoli.org/
color=#000000>(</FONT></SPAN>http://www.ieeesoli.org</FONT></FONT></FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial>)<SPAN class=888382900-23042007></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sponsored by: IEEE<SPAN class=281450102-05042007>
</SPAN>and INFORMS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414042616-18042007><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff>The <SPAN class=888382900-23042007>full paper submission
</SPAN>deadline<SPAN class=888382900-23042007>:<SPAN class=311260721-04052007>
<STRONG>May 10, 2007</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=012374713-05042007><SPAN class=888382900-23042007><FONT size=+0><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#008000><SPAN
class=311260721-04052007><STRONG>However,</STRONG> i</SPAN>f you are interested
in <STRONG>abstract submission ONLY </STRONG>and would like to present your work
at the conference, <SPAN class=311260721-04052007>p</SPAN>lease submit your
abstract to Dr. Robin Qiu (</FONT></FONT></FONT><A title=mailto:robinqiu@psu.edu
href="mailto:robinqiu@psu.edu"><FONT face=Arial
color=#008000>robinqiu@psu.edu</FONT></A><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#008000>) directly.<SPAN class=311260721-04052007>
Please see the details on the web site (<U><FONT
color=#810081>http://www.ieeesoli.org</FONT></U>).</SPAN></FONT> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=789553600-03012006><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN class=012374713-05042007>Program
H</SPAN>ighlights:</FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=789553600-03012006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=789553600-03012006><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>Keynotes</STRONG>:<SPAN class=281450102-05042007>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Prof. Morris Cohen, Wharton
School<SPAN class=281450102-05042007>, University of Pennsylvania; </SPAN>Dr.
Brenda Dietrich, Director, IBM<SPAN class=281450102-05042007>,</SPAN> President
of INFORMS<SPAN class=281450102-05042007>;</SPAN> Prof. Matthew Realff, Program
Director, Enterprise Service Engineering, NSF<SPAN
class=281450102-05042007>.</SPAN> (More to be invited)<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=789553600-03012006><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=789553600-03012006><STRONG>US NSF </STRONG><SPAN
class=061571901-16012006><STRONG>Service
Research</STRONG> </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN class=281450102-05042007>Workshop
and </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN
class=789553600-03012006><STRONG>Visionary </STRONG><SPAN
class=576493801-02022006> <STRONG>Panels/</STRONG></SPAN><STRONG>Sessions</STRONG><SPAN
class=012374713-05042007> <STRONG>:</STRONG> </SPAN><SPAN
class=012374713-05042007>More than 20 worldwide leading scholars and
professionals will be invited, including Professors from MIT, Harvard, Penn, UC
Berkeley, Stanford, <SPAN class=311260721-04052007>USC, </SPAN>Yale, PSU,
Maryland, Arizona, RPI, UC Los Angels, </SPAN><SPAN
class=012374713-05042007>Georgia Tech, etc., Professionals from IBM, Sun
Microsystems, SSPA, Unisys, HP, etc. (<SPAN
class=311260721-04052007>NSF workshop </SPAN>will be held in parallel with
the conference)<STRONG>.</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial
color=#000000>Please share this information with your colleagues, friends, and
students. Thank you very much!</FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>Best regards,</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN class=281450102-05042007><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>Robin Qiu on
behalf of SOLI2007 Organizing
Committee</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial
size=2>======================================================<BR>Robin G. Qiu,
Ph.D.<BR>Division of Engineering and Information Science<BR>The Pennsylvania
State University<BR>30 E. Swedesford Road<BR>Malvern, PA 19355, USA</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phone: 1-610-725-5313 (Office), Fax;
1-610-648-3377 (Office)<BR>Personal Web: <A
href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/gxq102">http://www.personal.psu.edu/gxq102</A><BR>Editor-in-chief:
International Journal of Services Operations and
Informatics<BR>
(<A
href="http://www.inderscience.com/ijsoi">http://www.inderscience.com/ijsoi</A>)
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Book: </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Enterprise Service Computing </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial
size=2> (<A
href="http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?ID=6174">http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?ID=6174</A>)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Service Science, Part of INFORMS (<A
href="http://service-sci.section.informs.org/">http://service-sci.section.informs.org/</A>)<BR>======================================================</FONT></DIV>
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